Jensen Huang, every mention

TSMC founder Morris Chang · Acquired Jan 27, 2025 · 27 mentions

• ▶ 3:38 Morris Chang Yeah, it started, um, my relationship with Jensen started with a letter that he sent to me.
• ▶ 4:01 Morris Chang Uh, uh, and the letter said that, um, they were NVIDIA, the company that, uh, Jensen was the CEO of,
• ▶ 4:45 Morris Chang Would I please contact Jensen?
• ▶ 6:21 Morris Chang So the following week, I went to, uh, uh, California, and, uh, uh, I called him back without advance notice.
• ▶ 6:33 Morris Chang I, I called Jensen.
• ▶ 6:36 Morris Chang I think there was telephone number on the stationery that he sent me the letter on.
• ▶ 6:43 Morris Chang Jensen himself picked up the phone.
• ▶ 6:46 Morris Chang And there was a lot of background noise, so there were, I mean, his, he had, he was arguing something with, uh, uh, his people.
• ▶ 7:04 Morris Chang He immediately shouted to those people that were making noises.
• ▶ 7:10 Morris Chang He said, quiet.
• ▶ 7:16 Morris Chang So, so, uh, I then proceeded to make an appointment with him, uh, to visit him, to visit NVIDIA, uh, uh, the next day or something like that.
• ▶ 7:36 Morris Chang Visit our first meeting and he immediately impressed me with, um, his, um, articulateness and also, uh, impressed me with his, uh, optimism.
• ▶ 7:55 Morris Chang I, well, he was also very frank.
• ▶ 7:58 Morris Chang He told me that NVIDIA was in financial difficulties, but the chip that he wanted now to have found would not only, ah, save the company, it would also, ah, make NVIDIA a major customer of TSMC.
• ▶ 8:31 Morris Chang And, uh, to be a major, uh, customer of ours, he would have to produce revenue for us of, uh, at least, uh, fifty million, uh, a year.
• ▶ 8:59 Morris Chang In fact, his prediction came true.
• ▶ 13:12 Morris Chang Anyway, uh, I remember, uh, in the first few days, uh, after I took back the, uh, CEO ship, uh, I called all the major customers, including Jensen.
• ▶ 13:47 Morris Chang And, uh, in my call with Jensen, um, uh, he, uh, he was, uh, still, uh, very friendly with, with me, uh, but, uh, he also, uh, reminded me in a very serious tone that we had the quality delivery manufacturing problem on the 40 nanometer.
• ▶ 31:52 Morris Chang So about a month after I retook the CEO job, I sent an email to Jensen.
• ▶ 32:34 Morris Chang Now, uh, immediately, uh, he sent back, uh, an email.
• ▶ 32:40 Morris Chang He said, when do we discuss business then?
• ▶ 32:51 Morris Chang He didn't ask that.
• ▶ 33:53 Morris Chang So at Evercore Shop, uh, it was I who looked at the watch and said, Jensen, why don't we go to your study, you know.
• ▶ 34:01 Morris Chang And I gave him the offer.
• ▶ 34:39 Morris Chang Which was what he had suggested to the previous CEO anyway, that we go to the arbitrator, you know.
• ▶ 35:09 Morris Chang After, ah, as I said, weeks of work, ah, on my part.
• ▶ 35:23 Morris Chang He did, ah, in two, within two days.